DRI Faculty List
Drug & Medical Device Seminar Seminar
Boston Marriott Copley Place | Boston, MA | May 6 - 8, 2020
Michele S. Adeleye Assistant General Counsel
Pfizer Inc
Michele S. Adeleye is an Assistant General Counsel at Pfizer. She provides legal advice and counsel on emerging issues involving Digital/Social Media platforms. She also is currently counsel in the Pfizer Inflammation & Immunology Business Unit where she supports the advertising and promotion strategies. Prior to her current role, Ms. Suggs-Adeleye worked in Pfizer's Oncology business unit as well as in the Emerging Markets business. Prior to that she was a member of Pfizer's litigation group. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law. |
Jonathan Amar Sanofi-aventis U.S.
Jonathan Amar is an attorney in Sanofi's North America Litigation and Investigations group where he primarily manages product liability matters and commercial litigation. Jon was previously a litigation associate at two law firms in Princeton, NJ, as well as an assistant district attorney in the Bronx. Before going to law school, Jon taught math and social studies at a middle school in the Bronx. |
A. Elizabeth Balakhani Senior Counsel
GlaxoSmithKline
A. Elizabeth Balakhaniis Senior Litigation Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline where she handles commercial and product liability matters, as well as internal and government investigations. Prior to joining GSK, Elizabeth practiced at Goodell Devries LLP and Dechert LLP where she focused on representing pharmaceutical, medical device and chemical companies in mass torts, product liability and class action litigation. |
Adam C. Bassing UCB Inc.
Adam C. Bassing is Associate General Counsel at UCB, Inc. in Smyrna, GA. Adam received his JD from the University of North Carolina and his B.A. from Graceland University. He has 16 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, providing counsel across virtually all business units, operations and functions, with a focus on litigation and investigations. Prior to joining UCB in 2013, Adam was Senior Counsel at Merial, and before that he was a litigator at Troutman Sanders where he defended global pharmaceutical companies in product liability and false advertising litigation. |
Sheila S. Boston Partner
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Sheila S. Boston partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, is a trial lawyer and litigation strategist. She has litigated before both state and federal courts, and has significant MDL and class action experience. Passionate about diversity, Sheila received the inaugural "Private Practice" award of the Chambers Diversity Awards USA 2016 and serves on her firm's Hiring and Pro Bono Committees. Sheila also serves on DRI's Drug & Medical Device Steering Committee and is the Committee Vice Chair. |
John Browning Spencer Fane LLP
John Browning is a partner in the Plano, Texas office of Spencer Fane LLP, where he handles a wide variety of civil litigation. An adjunct professor at three law schools, John is the author of four books on social media and the law, as well as 40 law review articles and hundreds of articles. He has been quoted as a leading authority on social media and the law by such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the ABA Journal. |
Harry M. Byrne Duane Morris LLP
Harry M. Byrne is an associate in the trial practice group at Duane Morris LLP. He represents medical device and pharmaceutical clients nationally in the defense of products liability and mass tort litigation. Mr. Byrne also represents life sciences clients in commercial disputes, with a focus on trade secret and unfair competition matters. He has experience in all phases of litigation, including Daubert motion practice, expert depositions, and working with experts to develop and rebut scientific and medical causation. |
Angela Cai Wilkinson Walsh
Angela Cai is an associate at Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz, a trial litigation boutique. As a member of the Zoloft, Xarelto, and Essure products liability trial teams, she has prepared experts at all stages of litigation, including for testimony in front of juries. Angela is a graduate of Yale Law School and Princeton University, and clerked for Judge Michael Chagares on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Katherine B. Forrest on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. |
The Honorable Karen K. Caldwell US District Ct Eastern District of Kentucky
The Honorable Karen K. Caldwell is a United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and is the Chair of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ("JPML"). Judge Caldwell graduated from the University of Kentucky Law School in 1980 and from Transylvania University in 1977. After seven years with State Farm Insurance, she became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Kentucky, and was appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky in 1991. From 1993 until her appointment to the bench in 2001, she was a partner at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. |
Mahnu V. Davar Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Mahnu V. Davarcounsels clients on mission-critical FDA, CLIA, fraud and abuse, and state licensing regulatory matters, including compliance program development and management. He routinely assists multinational companies with sensitive internal investigations, regulatory inspections, product quality and safety issues, data integrity concerns, and government enforcement matters. He also assists clients, particularly in the diagnostics and medical technology fields, with developing regulatory lifecycle strategies. Mr. Davar's clients include biotechnology startups, major clinical laboratories, and some of the world's largest pharmaceutical and medical technology companies in the oncology, ophthalmology, and pain care spaces. |
Sandra M. Di Iorio Litigation Counsel
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc
Sandra M. Di Ioriois Litigation Counsel at Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., where she works on non-IP litigation and government investigations. Prior to joining Endo, Sandra was Counsel at Reed Smith in the Philadelphia office, where she handled commercial, product liability, and employment cases for various clients. Sandra received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law. |
Jaime L. Dodge Director
Emory University School of Law
Jaime L. Dodgeis the founding director of Emory's complex litigation institute. Prior to joining Emory, she was a faculty member at Harvard Law School. She brings a unique pragmatic approach to her work, having practiced for a number of years with Paul Hastings and Gibson Dunn, where she focused on high-stakes complex litigation appeals and settlements. Her scholarship focuses on how the structure of procedural regimes affects the exercise of rights and enforcement of substantive law. |
Jennifer A. Eppensteiner Associate
Reed Smith LLP
Jennifer A. Eppensteineris committed to supporting pharmaceutical and medical device clients who advance therapies that enhance patients' well-being. Jennifer's practice focuses primarily on complex product liability litigation, including federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) and consolidated state court actions. She is a senior associate in Reed Smith LLP's Life Sciences Health Industry Group, resident in the Princeton, New Jersey office. Jennifer currently serves as a Young Lawyer liaison to the Drug and Medical Device Steering Committee. |
Larissa A. Eustice Bayer Corporation
Larissa A. Eustice Senior Counsel at Bayer US LLC, manages and sets strategy in various litigation matters across all business units -- specializing in legal defense of Pharmaceutical, Crop Science and Consumer Health matters. Larissa is actively engaged in all phases of the litigation life cycle, including providing counseling to business units regarding risk management. Larissa has spent the last four years directing a successful litigation strategy in large pharmaceutical product liability mass tort MDL, including 6 consecutive defense verdicts in federal and state courts involving a key product. |
Eric M. Falkenberry DLA Piper LLP (US)
Eric M. Falkenberry specializes in the assessment, quantification and transfer of litigation risk through data mining, litigation analytics, and predictive modeling, with a particular emphasis on the utilization of such tools to provide clients with strategic advice on how to sell, buy, manage and invest in litigation risk. Eric also develops innovative tools and initiatives utilizing machine learning, natural language processing, and data analytics to increase both the efficiency and quality of particular legal tasks. He is the Chair of DLA's Litigation Innovation Committee and Vice-Chair of the Firm's Innovation Review Board. |
Hope S. Freiwald Partner
Dechert LLP
Hope S. Freiwald is a trial lawyer at Dechert LLP, who for over 25 years, has handled a broad range of product liability, toxic tort and consumer class action cases, typically involving scientific and public health issues. Much of her work focuses on the development of affirmative and defensive strategies for expert witnesses, including most recently on behalf of a leading manufacturer of opioid medicines. Ms. Freiwald's practice has been highlighted by such publications as Best Lawyers in America, Benchmark Litigation and LMG Life Sciences. |
Martin Gomez DexCom Inc
Martin Gomezis an in-house attorney at Dexcom, Inc. Dexcom designs, develops, and manufactures medical device technologies, including Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems, dedicated to improving the management of diabetes. Prior to Dexcom, Martin served as in-house counsel to a number of privately held companies. Martin obtained his undergraduate degree from Arizona State University, and his law degree from the University of Arizona. Martin has an LLM from the University of Washington. At Dexcom, Martin helps oversee regulatory classification of new and evolving technologies, and various outside litigation matters. |
Christopher P. Gramling Sr. Dir.- Assistant General Counsel
Eli Lilly and Co
Christopher P. Gramling is Sr. Director, Assistant General Counsel – Litigation & Legal Compliance at Eli Lilly and Company. In his current role, he manages the company's general litigation and government enforcement matters. Prior to this role, he was legal counsel for several brands and molecules in the BioMedicines business unit and previously managed a variety of product liability and other litigations and coordinated various civil justice reform efforts impacting product liability litigation. Before joining Lilly, he was a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon's Kansas City, Missouri office where he handled product liability litigation matters for a variety of pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. He has a law degree from Vanderbilt University and an undergraduate degree from Colgate University. He is former president of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival in Kansas City, Missouri. |
Devin J. Griffin Associate
Reed Smith LLP
Devin J. Griffin is a member of Reed Smith LLP's Life Sciences Health Industry Group, and is resident in the Princeton office. She focuses her practice on defending pharmaceutical and medical device litigation in state and federal courts. She has experience in single plaintiff matters, as well as coordinated cases and multidistrict litigation. She is responsible for overseeing state and federal court litigation for a medical device manufacturer and handles cases from their initial case workup through the ultimate trial of the matter. |
Anne A. Gruner Duane Morris LLP
Anne A. Grunerrepresents major medical device and pharmaceutical industry clients in coordinated and single-plaintiff complex products liability matters. She has extensive experience in federal and state court motion practice, managing and steering comprehensive discovery strategies in individual and mass tort matters, and working with consultants and experts to rebut technical theories of scientific and medical causation. She also publishes regularly on current products liability topics and is located in Duane Morris LLP's Philadelphia office. |
Jennifer Snyder Heis Partner
Ulmer & Berne LLP
Jennifer Snyder Heis is a partner at Ulmer & Berne and based in its Cincinnati office. She concentrates her practice in pharmaceutical and mass tort litigation, and represents clients both nationally, in multidistrict litigation and coordinated state proceedings, and locally. She is active with DRI's Drug and Medical Device Committee and serves as the 2020 seminar Vice Program Chair and a member of the DRI Law Institute. |
Tamar B. Kelber Gass Weber Mullins
Tamar B. Kelber is a member of Gass Weber Mullins LLC, a trial boutique in Milwaukee, WI and Miami, FL. Ms. Kelber previously was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, where her practice focused on mass tort litigation, and national coordination and defense of pharmaceutical and other product liability cases, and counseling on the prevention and reduction of regulatory and product liability risks. At Gass Weber Mullins, she has expanded her practice to include commercial disputes, catastrophic injury and healthcare litigation, and internal investigations. |
Jae Yeon Kim Associate
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Jae Yeon Kim is an associate at DLA Piper, where she focuses her practice on regulatory and litigation matters impacting clients in the life sciences, food and beverage, and consumer products industries. In her regulatory practice, Jae provides counseling and risk management advice to clients on state and federal regulatory matters (including FDA, USDA, and DEA) to help them balance their regulatory responsibilities with their business needs. She also has experience defending large multinational companies in product liability, false advertising, and commercial litigation. |
Daniel W. Linna, Jr. Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Daniel W. Linna, Jr. has a joint appointment at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and McCormick School of Engineering as the Director of Law and Technology Initiatives and a Senior Lecturer. Dan's teaching and research focus on innovation and technology, including computational law, artificial intelligence, data analytics, leadership, operations, and innovation frameworks. He began his legal career with a one-year judicial clerkship for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James L. Ryan. After his clerkship, he joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn in Detroit. Dan was a litigator and member of Honigman's Automotive and Manufacturing; e-Discovery and Information Management; Commercial Transactions; and Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media groups. Dan received his BA from the University of Michigan, received a second BA and an MA in public policy and administration from Michigan State University, and graduated magna cum laude, Order of the Coif from the University of Michigan Law School. |
Mary Massaron Partner
Plunkett Cooney PC
Mary Massaron is a partner with Plunkett Cooney, P.C., in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. In 30 years of appellate practice and some 50 published opinions, Mary has represented clients in all Michigan appellate courts, the appellate courts of Alabama, California, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, and Ohio, as well as the Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, and the Tribal Court of Appeals. She is a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers a member of the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence's Board of Directors, Co-Chair of the Michigan Appellate Bench Bar Conference Foundation, and past president of DRI. Before going into private practice, Mary served as a clerk for the Hon. Patricia J. Boyle of the Michigan Supreme Court. |
Bradley A. Matta Associate Litigation Counsel
Mylan Inc.
Bradley A. Matta is Associate Litigation Counsel for Mylan Inc. Mr. Matta is responsible for managing a wide array of litigation throughout North America, including consumer class actions, product liability, antitrust, employment and general commercial litigation. Prior to coming to Mylan, Mr. Matta worked at a private law firm where he had the opportunity to litigate product liability and commercial actions on Mylan's behalf, along with also representing other manufacturers and private and public companies. |
Connie A. Matteo Corporate Counsel - Litigation, Law Department
Pfizer Inc
Connie A. Matteo joined Pfizer, Inc. as senior corporate counsel–litigation in October 2009. Her practice focuses on complex product liability and pharmaceutical drug and medical device product liability claims. Ms. Matteo also counselspharmaceutical clients on issues related to regulatory compliance. Ms. Matteo has also authored a number of articles and lectured on issues related to product liability litigation and regulatory compliance. Ms. Matteo's professional affiliations include the Steering Committee of DRI's Drug and Medical Device Committee and the Product Liability Advisory Council. |
Stephen J. McConnell Partner
Reed Smith LLP
Stephen J. McConnell is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Reed Smith LLP. He frequently defends pharmaceutical and medical device clients in product liability mass tort litigation. He also litigates antitrust, securities, and white collar criminal cases throughout the United States. Stephen has tried dozens of cases before juries in federal and state trial courts, with first-chair wins in both government and private practice cases. Stephen is also a regular contributor to the award-winning Drug and Device Law blog. |
Ted J. McDonald III Founding Partner
McDonald Veon PA
Ted J. McDonald III, is a founding partner of McDonald Veon PA in Overland Park, Kansas. He practices in a variety of areas of civil litigation with a primary emphasis on defending and consulting long term care and assisted living facilities. Ted serves as counsel for some of the largest providers of long term care services in the country. Mr. McDonald's background includes experience in products liability, medical malpractice and personal injury litigation. Mr. McDonald is a member of both the Missouri and Kansas Bars and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts in Missouri and Kansas. Ted is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) and holds numerous positions of leadership with the Defense Research Institute (current member, DRI Law Institute; past Chair, DRI Medical Liability and Healthcare Law Committee; past Chair, DRI Nursing Home-ALF Subcommittee; past member, DRI Governance Committee; past Chair, DRI Young Lawyers' Committee; past Faculty, DRI Nursing Home and Medical Liability Seminars). Mr. McDonald is the Law Institute liaison for this seminar. |
The Honorable Jane Triche Milazzo Eastern District of Louisiana District Court
The Honorable Jane Triche Milazzowas sworn in as a United State District Court Judge on October 12, 2011, after being unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on October 11, 2011. Judge Milazzo took a non-traditional path to the district Court bench. She graduated from Nicholl's State University in 1977 and taught elementary school for several years. In 1986, she left teaching and went to work for her father in his prolific trial practice as his legal assistant and eventually found her way to law school. She graduated from LSU Law School in 1992 and immediately went into practice with her family at the Law Offices of Risley Triche, LLC, where she engaged in a general civil practice. Judge Milazzo was the first female to practice law in Assumption Parish and ultimately became the first female elected to Louisiana's 23rd Judicial District Court. During her years in private practice and in the state and federal judiciary, Judge Milazzo was active in several legal organizations and served as president of both the Assumption Parish Bar Association and the Twenty-Third Judicial District Bar Association. She was a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association House of Delegates where she served as chair of the legislative committee. As a state district court judge, she served on the executive committee of the District Judges Association. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New Orleans Federal Bar Association. Judge Milazzo regularly speaks to lawyers on issues of professionalism, advocacy, and complex litigation. She currently presides over the multidistrict litigation, In Re: Taxotere (Docetaxel) Products Liability Litigation. She is married to her husband, John. They have six children and four grandchildren. |
Elizabeth M. Mitchell Senior Counsel
Smith & Nephew Inc
Elizabeth M. Mitchellhas been a commercial litigator for over two decades with extensive experience representing businesses and individuals in complex, multi-party litigation in state and federal courts, including mass torts, product liability, commercial litigation, sales/marketing activities, qui tam actions and government investigations. She currently serves as Senior Counsel, Litigation & Investigations at Smith & Nephew, Inc., where she is the lead lawyer for the Smith & Nephew group of companies for product liability and certain other litigation globally. She also manages companywide internal and external investigations. |
Mary Terese Novacheck Bowman and Brooke LLP
Mary Terese Novacheck a partner at product liability defense firm Bowman and Brooke LLP, is a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of Lawyer's for Civil Justice (LCJ). LCJ's membership consists of a select group of the most accomplished law firms in the defense community and corporations from a wide range of industries. DRI is one of LCJ's member organizations. LCJ's mission is to promote excellence and fairness in the civil justice system to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of civil cases. Mary also co-chairs LCJ's Diversity and Young Lawyers Committee, launching its Fellows program in May 2019. Her practice focuses on defending automotive and life sciences manufacturers in discovery in complex mass torts, MDLs and state coordinated actions. |
Ryan J. O'Neil Campbell Conroy & O'Neil PC
Ryan J. O'Neil is a trial attorney representing clients in complex commercial and products liability litigation, with significant jury trial experience in both federal and state courts across the United States. Mr. O'Neil has experience representing clients at all phases of litigation, including pre-litigation counseling and investigation, motion practice, fact and expert discovery, oral argument, pretrial, trial and appeal, and at mediation. He also advises clients in assessing strategies designed to avoid litigation and manage risk. Mr. O'Neil received his J.D. from Boston College Law School. |
Allison Oliver Client Manager
Smith & Carson Investigations
Allison Oliver is an Executive Vice President at Smith & Carson, a defense oriented private investigation firm that specializes in conducting complex fact investigations for large scale and high exposure product liability litigation. Allison provides clients with investigation recommendations to support defense themes such as alternative causation, product defense, illegitimate claims, and questionable credibility. Prior to joining Smith & Carson, Allison was a Large Law Research Consultant and Client Manager for LexisNexis. Allison graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in International Business. |
Kevin L. Ong, PhD, PE Principal Engineer
Exponent
Kevin L. Ong, PhD, PE is a Principal Engineer in the Biomedical Engineering Practice at Exponent. He provides engineering consulting services related to product liability and intellectual property litigation matters, as well as product design consulting services to the life sciences industry. His background is in failure analysis of medical devices and medical equipment, with a focus on how patient, surgical, and device factors influence performance He also helps his clients interpret their clinical data. Kevin received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and is a licensed Professional Engineer. |
Desiree Ralls-Morrison Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Boston Scientific Corporation
Desiree Ralls-Morrison is Boston Scientific's Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. She provides global legal leadership across all businesses, regions and functions, and oversees the company's global compliance function. Prior experience includes four years as SVP general counsel and corporate secretary, and head of the global litigation, government affairs and public policy organizations, for Boehringer Ingelheim USA, Inc.; and nine years at Johnson & Johnson, most recently as general counsel for the consumer group (after holding positions of increasing responsibility). Earlier in her career, she was senior attorney and assistant counsel at Merck & Co. and held litigation roles at Kelley Drye & Warren and Shipman & Goodwin. |
Michelle A. Ramirez Sidley Austin LLP
Michelle A. Ramirez is a product liability partner in Sidley Austin's Chicago office. She represents medical device, pharmaceutical and consumer goods clients in complex product liability matters in state and federal courts, including in multidistrict litigation. She was recently named "Best in Product Liability" at Euromoney LMG's 2019 Rising Stars Awards. Michelle is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law. |
Gail Rodgers Partner
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Gail Rodgersis a partner in the New York City office of DLA Piper. She concentrates her practice in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, mass torts and government and internal investigations. Gail represents clients on a wide variety of compliance matters, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) as well as advising and enhancing compliance programs in response to investigations. Gail has extensive experience in a wide variety of state and federal litigation, including providing strategic advice at each stage of litigation, managing national discovery teams, and implementation of national resolution programs. Gail serves as the Chair of the DRI Drug and Medical Device Committee. |
Munjot Sahu Counsel-Litigation and Legal Compliance
Eli Lilly and Co
Munjot Sahu serves as Counsel in the Litigation and Legal Compliance group at Eli Lilly and Company. In that role, she manages product liability and commercial litigation for Lilly, and also serves as e-discovery counsel to the company. Prior to joining Lilly, Munjot practiced product liability and business litigation in the Indianapolis office of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP for 8.5 years. She has also authored several publications on biosimilars and other product liability litigation issues. Munjot graduated cum laude from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law (Bloomington) and with honors from Oberlin College. |
E. Paige Sensenbrenner Managing Partner
Adams and Reese LLP
E. Paige Sensenbrennerserves as the Senior Partner-in-Charge of the New Orleans office of Adams and Reese, LLP. His litigation practice has involved class actions and mass torts, drugs and devices, toxic torts and Attorney General actions. He currently serves as trial counsel for a major energy company in cases alleging damages due to radiation exposure. He is a fellow in the International Society of Barristers and a member of DRI, the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Lawyers for Civil Justice and PLAC. |
W. Kennedy Simpson Principal
Thompson Miller & Simpson PLC
W. Kennedy Simpson, is a principal in Thompson Miller & Simpson PLC in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been involved in the defense of pharmaceutical and medical device product liability litigation for over 40 years. Kennedy is national counsel for an international manufacturer of orthopedic devices, and has served as national and regional counsel for numerous pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. He has tried over 100 cases to verdict, including trials in thirteen states. Kennedy has published and lectured extensively on topics relating to drug and medical device litigation, and has taught trial skills at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and the IADC Trial Academy. He is a member of the ABA, IADC, ABOTA, PLAC, CLM, LCA, and DRI, and is on the DRI Drug & Medical Device Steering Committee. |
Erik W. Snapp Partner
Dechert LLP
Erik W. Snapp is a partner in the Chicago office of Dechert LLP. He advises and defends pharmaceutical, medical device, consumer products and automotive clients in consumer fraud class actions and product liability/mass tort litigation. He also has handled regulatory and internal investigations in the United States and Europe, and has advised clients on compliance and ethics issues. Erik serves as the Program Chair of the DRI Drug and Medical Device Committee. |
Richard Underwood, PhD Exponent
Richard Underwood, PhD is a Managing Engineer in the Biomedical Engineering Practice at Exponent. He specializes in the mechanical and tribological performance of medical devices and equipment, and provides engineering and scientific consulting services to legal and industry clients. Richard has a PhD from Imperial College London and is a licensed professional engineer. |
Leonel M. (Len) van Zyl, PhD CEO
ArrayXpress Inc
Leonel M. (Len) van Zyl, PhD, is with ArrayXpress Inc., a genomics services company providing turn-key solutions for Systems Biology applications, including toxicant exposure cases. ArrayXpress has served more than a dozen Fortune 100 companies including pharmaceuticals, agriculture and energy leaders. Len has developed an in-depth understanding in the application of genetics and genomics technologies to elucidate the existence of effects of toxicants on DNA, RNA, and epigenetic markers. He has been recognized as a Top 50 Entrepreneurs Award winner for his impact on the scientific and business community. |
Sarah A. Westby Associate
Shipman & Goodwin LLP
Sarah A. Westby is an associate in the product liability and tort litigation practice group at Shipman & Goodwin LLP. She is admitted to practice in Connecticut and New York, and is based in Hartford, Connecticut. Ms. Westby concentrates her practice in the defense of drug and medical device manufacturers, hospitals, health-care providers, and dietary supplement manufacturers. She is a current member of the DRI Young Lawyers Committee Steering Committee and serves as co-chair of the Publications Subcommittee. |
Melanie Woodward Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
Melanie Woodward is an associate in Nutter's Product Liability practice group. She frequently provides legal advice to clients in product liability defense matters, government investigations, and complex commercial litigation. Melanie is experienced in all stages of litigation, including initial fact investigation, discovery, depositions, dispositive motions, expert witness preparation, and trial. Melanie has authored articles on the legal implications of autonomous robotic surgery, which have been published in Medical Design & Outsourcing and included in the materials for the American Bar Association's 2018 panel on Current Issues in Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Biotech Litigation. |